Eisner: Good support for our current work

For perspective on skills, concepts, etc. addressed across grades and over time, please review the Delaware info at: http://www.doe.k12.de.us/infosuites/staff/ci/content_areas/vparts.shtml

Sub-Content Areas for All Arts Disciplines, a la Florida Course Code Directory:


Course Enrollments and Districts - Elementary:

Course Enrollments and Districts - Middle School:


Course Enrollments and Districts - High School:




Comprehensive Resources for the NGSSS-Arts


The sites and documents listed below have been selected to inform your work as Writers for the NGSSS-Arts. Items underlined and in colored text are links to sites on the Internet. All other items are documents and are linked directly from this wiki page. Please report broken links to Linda.Lovins@fldoe.org immediately.



National and International Curricula and Standards

The National Standards for Arts Education (with NDA-produced Dance Standards)

NDEO Standards for Ages 5-18.Purchased Copy – Embargoed (PDF)


U.S. Department of Education: National Center for Educational Statistics – Secondary School Course Classification System: School Codes for the Exchange of Data (SCED), which includes:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Framework of SCED
  • Chapter 3. SCED Subject Areas
- Subject Area 5: Fine and Performing Arts (secondary)
(New high school Course Descriptions have been submitted by the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education [SEADAE] to NCES; middle school and elementary Course Descriptions will be developed soon.)


The ISTE National Education Standards (NETS-S) and Performance Indicators for Students

Finland K-9: Music, Visual Art, and Crafts (begin on p. 230)

Queensland, Australia
§ Queensland Essential Learnings by Year Juncture, Prep – Year 9

Singapore: 2008 Syllabus – General Music Programme (Primary/Secondary)
Singapore: 2008 Art Syllabus (Primary & Lower Secondary)
Singapore: 2008 Theatre Studies and Drama Teaching Syllabus


Standards Review Guides

Benchmarking for Success: Ensuring U.S. Students Receive a World-Class Education (A Report by the National Governors Association, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and Achieve, Inc., 2008)

Criteria and Definitions Used by Achieve to Review 2006 FL Standards (ADAPTED) (Document)

South Carolina's Criterion for VPA, Highlighted (Document)



State and City Curricula and Standards

California: Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools (2001)

Colorado:


Delaware


Florida NEXT GENERATION Sunshine State Standards and Course Descriptions:
§ Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS) in Health, Language Arts, Mathematics (w/ Big Ideas), Physical Education (including Dance), Science (with Big Ideas), and Social Studies
§ Course Descriptions
§ Access Points

Florida Standards and Course Descriptions: Sunshine State Standards (SSS) (1996)
Dance (DA) Course Descriptions and GLEs
Dance, PreK-2
Dance, 3-5
Dance, 6-8Dance Course Descriptions, 6-8
Dance, 9-12Dance Course Descriptions, 9-12

Music (MU) Course Descriptions and GLEs
Music, PreK-2 Music Grade-Level Expectations, K-2
Music, 3-5 Music Grade-Level Expectations, 3-5
Music, 6-8 Music Course Descriptions, 6-8
Music, 9-12 Music Course Descriptions, 9-12

Theatre (TH) Course Descriptions and GLEs
Theatre, PreK-2
Theatre, 3-5
Theatre, 6-8Theatre Course Descriptions, 6-8
Theatre, 9-12Theatre Course Descriptions, 9-12

Visual Art (VA) Course Descriptions and GLEs
Visual Art, PreK-2 Visual Art Grade-Level Expectations, K-2
Visual Art, 3-5 Visual Art Grade-Level Expectations, 3-5
Visual Art, 6-8 Visual Art Course Descriptions, 6-8
Visual Art, 9-12 Visual Art Course Descriptions, 9-12

Exceptional Student Education
7801010 Visual and Performing Arts: 6-8
7813010 Music: 6-8

Kentucky Combined Curriculum Document 2006 – Arts and Humanities

Louisiana Standards Matrix (Document)


Maine Learning Results: Parameters for Essential Instruction – Visual and Performing Arts (2007)

Massachusetts Standards (2009)

New Mexico Content Standards, Benchmarks, and Performance Standards (2009 update)

NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards -
Standard 1: Visual and Performing Arts

New York City Department of Education: Curriculum Blueprints for the Arts

Ohio Fine Arts Academic Content Standards

Pennsylvania Standards Aligned System (SAS)

Wisconsin’s Model Academic Standards for Art and Design Education (2000)


Agency and Organizational Research Reports and Documents


Arts Education Partnership

The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge – Series: “Teaching for Understanding in the Visual and Performing Arts,” by John L. Brown, based on the principles of Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe



Lincoln Center: Institute for the Arts in Education – “Capacities for Imaginative Learning”

NAEP Report 2008: The Arts / The Nation’s Report Card: Arts 2008

Partnership for 21st Century Skills
§ Framework for 21st Century Learning
§ 21st Century Outcomes
§ P21 Framework Definitions


Process Documents

1003.41 Florida Statute, NGSSS (Document)

Presentation: Overview for Fine Arts Framers Meeting (May 23, 2010) (PPt)

Overview of NGSSS-Arts Process (Document)

Calendar Overview (Document)

Writing Process for NGSSS-Arts 2010 (Document)

Framers' and Writers' Roles (Document)

NGSSS CHARGE to the Writing Teams -The Arts (Document)

The Framers (Document)



Writing Support

General Information


- The Neuroscience and Art in Drawing – Read Diket (Submitted by Tom Brewer (PDF)
- Principles of Possibility – Olivia Gude (Submitted by Tom Brewer) (PDF)
- NGSSS and Summaries/Points from Varied Sources – Tom Brewer (used with permission)
§ Jensen-plus Notes – Suzi Preston (Document - used with permission)
§ Sub-content Areas (Document)

Big Ideas, Enduring Understandings, and Understanding by Design (UbD)


Technology Guidance
Here are tutorial options for Google Docs: